Janice Nadler

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Research Professor

750 N. Lake Shore Drive
4th Floor
Chicago, IL 60611

Joint appointment

Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law

Education

Ph.D., Social Psychology, University of Illinois; J.D., University of California, Berkeley

Bio

Janice Nadler is Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation, and Professor of Law at Northwestern University School of Law. She received a J.D. from the University of California at…

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Research focus

Compliance with the law; perceptions of responsibility and fairness; and negotiation and conflict.

Projects

The Social Psychological Role of Subjective Harm in Punishment: Latest finding: Jan 23, 2008, with Mary R. Rose; This research investigates the factors that play a psychological role in laypersons’ decisions about justice and responsibility. In criminal cases jurors sometimes hear, by way of victim impact…
Expressive Law: Latest finding: Jan 23, 2008, with Richard McAdams; This project seeks to understand empirically the effects that law has apart from sanctions that it imposes. It tests experimentally the theory that law influences behavior in coordination games with…
Condemn-Nation: The Social Psychological Foundations of the Kelo Backlash: Latest finding: Jan 23, 2008, with Shari Seidman Diamond; This project seeks to understand and explain the extreme public reaction to the Kelo case, in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that governments are permitted to force the sale of private property…

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Publications

Government Takings of Private Property: Kelo and the Perfect Storm: Oxford University Press
Moral Spillovers: The Effect of Moral Mandate Violations on Deviant Behavior: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
Constructing Focal Points Through Legal Expression: An Experimental Test: Rowman & Littlefield

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Presentations

The Focal Point Theory of Expressive Law: A Contextualized Test: Oct 2007
Psychological Research: Understanding Responses to Law: Jul 2007 with Shari Diamond

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Professional Service & Recognition

Co-Editor, Analyzing Law's Reach: Empirical Research on Law and Society (ABA Publishing, forthcoming,)
Member, Executive Board, Dispute Resolution Research Center, Northwestern University